{"id":23247,"date":"2026-08-06T15:24:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23247"},"modified":"2026-08-06T15:24:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T10:24:26","slug":"prime-minister-shehbaz-sharif-to-depart-for-saudi-arabia-today-asim-munir-to-accompany-delegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23247","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to depart for Saudi Arabia today, Asim Munir to accompany delegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is scheduled to leave for Saudi Arabia today on an official visit that will continue until August 8. Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, Field Marshal Asim Munir and other senior officials will accompany him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Foreign Office spokesperson Tahir Hussain Andrabi announced the visit during a weekly briefing and said the prime minister would hold meetings with Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Foreign Office, the discussions will focus on bilateral relations, economic cooperation, regional developments and other matters of mutual interest.<\/p>\n<p>The statement added that the visit is aimed at strengthening diplomatic ties and exploring new avenues of cooperation between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Regional peace, diplomatic coordination and joint strategic initiatives are also expected to be discussed during the meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan and Saudi Arabia maintain longstanding relations in the fields of trade, defence, investment and economic cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is scheduled to leave for Saudi Arabia today on an official visit that will continue until August 8. Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar, Field Marshal Asim Munir and other senior officials will accompany him. Foreign Office spokesperson Tahir Hussain Andrabi announced the visit during a weekly briefing and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[1714,1901,170,6623,2914,62,434,1634],"class_list":["post-23247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-asim-munir","tag-foreign-office","tag-ishaq-dar","tag-king-salman","tag-mohammed-bin-salman","tag-pakistan","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-shehbaz-sharif"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23249,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23247\/revisions\/23249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}